It has been wet! Of course we wanted snow but that elusive snow never arrived. Instead we have had wet conditions for all of our outdoor activities lately! Maddox and I were huddled under my umbrella at Zander's soccer game on Friday night.
Hanging with the Houstons
Monday, March 11, 2024
A Wet 13.1
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Life Lately
We love our Sunday evening routine of going to AWANA at church! I love that I get to be with Maddox's group for the rotations and can see him serving within the children's ministry! We always get our "sweet treat" afterwards... ice cream for dinner.... whose complaining?! ;)
Twin Day at School! Zander wanted to match his mommy for his final twin day of his elementary career... I'm trying not to cry over here! Maddox was twinning with one of his best friends!
Saturday, February 17, 2024
Broken Fences and Fender Benders
I came home on a Friday afternoon to see that a neighbor's tree had taken out four places in our fenced in backyard. What a way to start the weekend!? We haven't had it fixed yet and I think I was almost more sad that it hit Burke's grave than us having to mend the fence in four sections. I guess it is good we don't need a fenced in yard just yet to contain a family pet! We are hoping to have a new four-legged addition to our family in the next year or so! Stay tuned....
Valentine's Day with some of my favorite valentines.....
We went to grab our free donuts for their great report cards.... All A's for Z and All level 3s for M! I'm so proud of how hard these boys work at school!
We enjoyed a family day snow tubing.... since the snow isn't coming to us, we decided to find some snow and had the best time with our little family of four!
100th Day of School.... We dressed as 100 year olds! ;) It was Zander's 1000th day of elementary school! Crazy huh?!
Today, we went separate directions.... Grammy and I went to cheer on Zander for his first soccer tournament of the spring season and Daddy and Madman went to play/coach an indoor sport.... basketball! It was freezing cold for these soccer games and Daddy came outside to see that someone had hit his parked car.... it was a hit and run and we are working through getting the insurance and repairs taken care of. Never a dull moment!
Friday, February 2, 2024
Life Lately
Our fifth grader is officially in the last semester of his elementary school career and as the 5th grade staff parents sat down to create a yearbook page for these "seniors" (nine of them in all), I started to cry. I cannot believe Zander won't be with me next year! I am going to miss this crew so much.... and I'm just going to leave it at that for now! ;)
Both boys had birthday parties while Zack was out of town for work... mommy survived shuttling them back and forth to the various festivities they had.... Friends helped with the transporting as well... it takes a village!
Zack won the President's Club Award.... for the second time in his career! This time he got to walk the stage! When he won it in 2021, he was on a zoom call. Last time we were able to go to Hawaii! The trip this year is planned for Miami! The dates might conflict with other events this spring.....so stay tuned to see if we make it to my home state or if we need to postpone for another time! I'm so proud of our favorite guy and how hard he works to provide for our family!
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Winter Sports: Basketball!
We've been busy since we rang in the new year! The boys have started back to basketball.... enjoying practices throughout the week and games on Saturday. It was so much fun cheering on the boys and their cousin, Emmy, to three wins in their first week of games! They have since had a second weekend of basketball and had three wins again (I got the highlights of Z's game from another parent)! ;) Daddy, Uncle Boomer, and Grandpa are helping coach the kids' teams which means the whole family is committed to Saturdays at the basketball court! Zander missed his game yesterday due to a fever, lethargy and cough that started on Friday. The doctor said it isn't strep or the flu so we are just waiting out the virus! He has started feeling better today and now Maddox is under the weather. We are praying the germs leave quickly and are thankful the symptoms are manageable with some pain medication! We are also thankful for the long weekend and having an extra day to recover tomorrow before heading back to school. Daddy still has to work but I think the rest of us will be taking it easy. Zander starts back to soccer next week so we will be juggling multiple sports until March! Prayers appreciated ;)
I was able to have two social gatherings this week in spite of the hectic pace that has started in the new year. I got to see some of my best friends for dinner and celebrate a co-worker and cherished friend's 50th birthday party with many of my colleagues. Since we were celebrating M's teacher, he got to tag along. ;)
Monday, January 1, 2024
Hello 2024!
As I say every year, our favorite week is the time we get off of school and work between Christmas and New Year's Day! Daddy is home and we have fun doing little daily outings and knocking things off the ongoing yearly to-do list. The boys enjoyed a swim at the YMCA pool on the day after Christmas (Tuesday)!